if you do not want a hands off policy, consider sever penalties for non-return.
I suppose a sever penalty policy would discourage borrowers. Now, what form of blade would you recommend? I'm thinking a butcher knife should work well, but I'm open to suggestions.
And for those of us who've used Debian before, we can tell you that, every so often, unstable just breaks.
There's a reason it's called unstable. I use testing, and find it fine for normal desktop use. Most of the stablity of stable, and most of the currentness of unstable.
What you're seeing is the same forces that are pushing for adoption of IPv6. This new credit-card format will allow multiple credit-card numbers for every atom in the galaxy, meaning that we will never again need to change the form-factor. Granted, there are some tradeoffs, but it will ultimately be worth it.
I am the author of this and I must point out that the phpstack server is actually still running after over two hours of slashdotting! It is extremely slow, however, because of the insane amount of IP packets that have to traverse the 115200 bps serial line that connects the server with the rest of the world. The front page of the server currently reports that it has served 13157 visitors.
It is now 3:40 after slashdotting, and it's still up, after serving 21,155 visitors. Nice.
Beyond that, Windows has a clear advantage since you can buy a box with the software in it from your local Walmart. That's a lot easier than going using the Internet and finding it yourself, to people with little computer experience.
This is where debian (and similar) packages come into play. Right now, if I want a piece of software, I simply enter KPackage, take a look around, find what I want, and hit install. (Plus root password and all that.)
The days of looking around the Internet for Linux software, then a cumbersome install process are over.
The general public sees viruses as something computers just get, and is as innocuous as a sniffle. If a few viruses came along and did the equivalent of schizophrenia, lung cancer and whole body pus filled sores to their computer, THEN they will take notice.
Just wait a few more months. Once all the script kiddies have left school for the summer, the odds increase rapidly.
Even if you choose some arbitrary cutoff date ("information after Jan 1, 2003 is likely to be fresh") how do you tell google to only find information after that date? You can't.
Google advanced search: Return web pages updated in the: anytime, Past 3 months, Past 6 months, Past year.
The moon gets hit by an asteroid knocking it off course and towards the earth.
You see all those craters on the moon? Can you imagine the size of rock needed to make craters that size? You'd need a much bigger rock in order to knock the moon off course.
In practicality, you would either need 1) an asteroid at around the same scale as the moon (73,490,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg), or 2) an asteroid traveling at a significant portion of the speed of light, or 3) a combination of the two.
Even after the moon being knocked off course, you'd need to wait for a few hundred years at least for any effects that would be too major.
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I would say that you must be American, but you are using metric units.
I overestimated to make the math easier. Doesn't change the answer.
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(Note: all numbers pulled from Internet in the space of a few minutes. May be inaccurate.)
mass of Earth: 5.9742 x 10^24 kilograms. That's 5,974,200,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg.
mass of average person: about 100 kilograms
number of bodies needed to change the Earth's weight by 1%: 597,420,000,000,000,000,000
Population of Earth: about 6,000,000,000
Weight of Apollo 11: about 30,000 kg
Number of Apollo 11's needed to change Earth's weight by 1% 1,991,400,000,000,000,000
If you REALLY wanted some fancy shit, try a diamond paste. Diamond is like 2000+ W/mK. Really good at transfering heat. (No, I don't know if anyone actually makes the stuff).
A quick Google search showed that it may actually be in use, but only in very high-end stuff, as in supercomputers, and even then only as sheets, not paste. If someone is looking to start a business, pricing out some bulk diamond dust and doing some tests might be in order. Find out who the people that make diamond-tipped saws and the like buy from.
Of course, they are hampered by the location of Mars, giving them a deadline written in stone. With this in mind, it is quite possible that one of the components got behind schedule, and did not receive proper testing.
I would much rather see Lewis's Out of the Silent Planet adapted to film. Weda could do marvelous work imagining the space voyage and the inhabitants of Lewis's Mars.
The problem would lie in the sequel. Prelandia would be rather difficult to turn into a film.
I'm waiting for the first case to go to trial. Think it'll be seen as the equivalent of running a red light, or gaining unauthorized access to a network?
Well, what he has there is missing a few characters. I copy-pasted the code to my computer, fixed the errors, then searched for MPAA. 0 results found. Same with RIAA.
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"I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone."
Jack Valenti, 1982
'I wasn't opposed to the VCR.'
Jack Valenti, 2003 Click
Therefore, he wasn't opposed to the Boston Strangler. QED.
if you do not want a hands off policy, consider sever penalties for non-return.
I suppose a sever penalty policy would discourage borrowers. Now, what form of blade would you recommend? I'm thinking a butcher knife should work well, but I'm open to suggestions.
And for those of us who've used Debian before, we can tell you that, every so often, unstable just breaks.
There's a reason it's called unstable. I use testing, and find it fine for normal desktop use. Most of the stablity of stable, and most of the currentness of unstable.
It's like the consumer public is paying the RIAA/MPAA to build a lynching platform, and to supply the rope and enforcement detail that go with it.
"When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope" - Joseph Stalin
What you're seeing is the same forces that are pushing for adoption of IPv6. This new credit-card format will allow multiple credit-card numbers for every atom in the galaxy, meaning that we will never again need to change the form-factor. Granted, there are some tradeoffs, but it will ultimately be worth it.
I am the author of this and I must point out that the phpstack server is actually still running after over two hours of slashdotting! It is extremely slow, however, because of the insane amount of IP packets that have to traverse the 115200 bps serial line that connects the server with the rest of the world. The front page of the server currently reports that it has served 13157 visitors.
It is now 3:40 after slashdotting, and it's still up, after serving 21,155 visitors. Nice.
Beyond that, Windows has a clear advantage since you can buy a box with the software in it from your local Walmart. That's a lot easier than going using the Internet and finding it yourself, to people with little computer experience.
This is where debian (and similar) packages come into play. Right now, if I want a piece of software, I simply enter KPackage, take a look around, find what I want, and hit install. (Plus root password and all that.)
The days of looking around the Internet for Linux software, then a cumbersome install process are over.
The general public sees viruses as something computers just get, and is as innocuous as a sniffle. If a few viruses came along and did the equivalent of schizophrenia, lung cancer and whole body pus filled sores to their computer, THEN they will take notice.
Just wait a few more months. Once all the script kiddies have left school for the summer, the odds increase rapidly.
OK, these people need lessons in designing killer robots. Three points:
1) Sharp jagged edges. This thing looks like it could safely be left with a kid.
2) Metal. Plastic is not useful for scaring people.
3) Red glowing parts. 'Nuff said.
Compare the cost for this with a series of security cameras, which have metal, sharp edges, and red glowing parts if you go with the right vendor.
Even if you choose some arbitrary cutoff date ("information after Jan 1, 2003 is likely to be fresh") how do you tell google to only find information after that date? You can't.
Google advanced search:
Return web pages updated in the:
anytime,
Past 3 months,
Past 6 months,
Past year.
I'm still glad to see this effort, though.
Quite simple:
With 10 messages (after automatic spam detection) humans are 100% accurate.
With 1,000 messages, (before automatic spam detection)
humans are less than 100% accurate.
The experiment was done on 5849 messages.
Remember; one thing computers are good at is doing boring things repeatedly.
The moon gets hit by an asteroid knocking it off course and towards the earth.
You see all those craters on the moon? Can you imagine the size of rock needed to make craters that size? You'd need a much bigger rock in order to knock the moon off course.
In practicality, you would either need
1) an asteroid at around the same scale as the moon (73,490,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg), or
2) an asteroid traveling at a significant portion of the speed of light, or
3) a combination of the two.
Even after the moon being knocked off course, you'd need to wait for a few hundred years at least for any effects that would be too major.
I would say that you must be American, but you are using metric units.
I overestimated to make the math easier. Doesn't change the answer.
(Note: all numbers pulled from Internet in the space of a few minutes. May be inaccurate.)
mass of Earth:
5.9742 x 10^24 kilograms. That's
5,974,200,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg.
mass of average person:
about 100 kilograms
number of bodies needed to change the Earth's weight by 1%:
597,420,000,000,000,000,000
Population of Earth:
about 6,000,000,000
Weight of Apollo 11:
about 30,000 kg
Number of Apollo 11's needed to change Earth's weight by 1%
1,991,400,000,000,000,000
In conclusion, the Earth is really big.
So, is there anybody out there that can name a change or two that they actually considered a major let-down?
Just a couple from ROTK:
The Ents deciding to destroy Saruman only after they see his forestry. That completely changed the character of the Ents.
The Steward of Gondor was not shown with his Palantir, making his insanity unexplained.
It seems we need to work on the interface for wearables more than anything.
It is a simple problem, easily solved with duct tape, a monkey and some explosives.
I can see the reason for the monkey, and everything can use duct tape, but I'm unsure on the reason for the explosives. Could you elaborate more?
You forgot to make the last 5 words a hyperlink. Also, please credit your sources.
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If you REALLY wanted some fancy shit, try a diamond paste. Diamond is like 2000+ W/mK. Really good at transfering heat. (No, I don't know if anyone actually makes the stuff).
A quick Google search showed that it may actually be in use, but only in very high-end stuff, as in supercomputers, and even then only as sheets, not paste. If someone is looking to start a business, pricing out some bulk diamond dust and doing some tests might be in order. Find out who the people that make diamond-tipped saws and the like buy from.
Wow! Sounds like the way to run a space program.
Of course, they are hampered by the location of Mars, giving them a deadline written in stone. With this in mind, it is quite possible that one of the components got behind schedule, and did not receive proper testing.
I would much rather see Lewis's Out of the Silent Planet adapted to film. Weda could do marvelous work imagining the space voyage and the inhabitants of Lewis's Mars.
The problem would lie in the sequel. Prelandia would be rather difficult to turn into a film.
The real question: How many more lawsuits are needed to get to Keven Bacon? I count 6.
Just for the record again, MSN doesn't actually provide the 8.9 million hits. Instead, if you keep on hitting next, it comes back down to 1016.
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I'm waiting for the first case to go to trial. Think it'll be seen as the equivalent of running a red light, or gaining unauthorized access to a network?
How about impersonating an officer?
Well, what he has there is missing a few characters. I copy-pasted the code to my computer, fixed the errors, then searched for MPAA. 0 results found. Same with RIAA.
Dress people up in Mozilla suits and send them screaming through New York City
Wouldn't Tokyo be more appropriate?